Wood, successor to Latter Day Saint leader Charles Ora Card, the founder of Cardston.

Both Glen and Edward Wood were from Salt Lake City, Utah, and are buried in Cardston.

Surveying for the community of originally named Glenwoodville was done by Seymour B. Smith.

The original townsite of Glenwood consisted of one block set aside for church buildings, another for district school purposes, and another, larger than the other two, for town park purposes.

In the centre of town, along the main street, business lots of fifty foot frontage were marked off.